Another Democrat That Gets It

Paul Kujawsky is a California Democrat who is a member of the State Democratic Central Committee in California. He seems to realize what many of his fellow Democrats cannot; that people do not trust Democrats with Homeland Security:

In the 1960s, my sister was part of the Free Speech Movement at Berkeley. She was arrested in a civil rights sit-in. Naturally, she was a lifelong Democrat.

Today, she is a "9-11 Republican."” She is not alone.

My sister is no less committed to civil rights than before. But she believes that not being murdered by Islamist terrorists is also an important civil right. She is not sure that the Democratic Party completely agrees with her.

For 9-11 Republicans, this is the most significant political issue. The GOP "gets it,"” while the Democratic Party doesn't....

...After all, the Democratic Party as a whole is more centrist than its leftist activists. For example, a 2005 Penn, Schoen and Berland poll shows that only 27 percent of registered Democrats describe themselves as "“liberal," while almost twice as many (53 percent) consider themselves "“moderate."” (The remainder are"conservative."”) These centrist folks, the weight of the party, need to become its dominant voice again.

If not, the Democratic Party can expect to lose my sister, and national elections, for the foreseeable future.

(Emphasis mine. Hat Tip: Red State)

Read the whole article, because it is very poignant for this and future elections. For all that some people disagree with the Republican agenda, the Republcian ascendancy will continue because people understand one fundamental concept of the Republican ethos: Republicans believe in protecting our nation from enemies foreign and domestic. In these modern times, voters cannot say the same about Democrats.